print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.23
Title: Object: A Doctor in Purgatory!
Description: Satire: frightened doctor surrounded by ghoulish figures with medical implements, saws and medicines, one bleeding him, another offering a pill; with verse below. 11 November 1792 Etching and aquatint
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; Print made by: John Hassell (aquatint); After: George Moutard Woodward; Published by: William Holland
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Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 474 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 414 millimetres (trimmed)
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Curator's comments: The subject is based on lines in Samuel Garth's "Dispensary".
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (81); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; doctor
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Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.23
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